{"id":636,"date":"2012-08-29T17:55:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2012-08-29T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:55:33","slug":"staying-ahead-september-2012-avoiding-alfresco-refurbishment-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Staying ahead September 2012 &#8211; your final call before Sept 5th to avert another Fresco refurbishment disaster&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What will avoid more Fresco refurbishments like this during this recession?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a tough call deciding where to invest when the top priority is to preserve cash and cut back, BUT the fall out of not investing in your business capability in a declining market is very costly on productivity, agility, motivation and building value. These are the very times when you need a very capable and effective team the most.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XuPuVEPgtjc?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This well publicized and well intentioned Fresco refurbishment is the typical outcome of well intentioned employee \/ business trying to carry out specialist work without the resources to do so. In a tight market professional services are operating just like this; operating like pass the parcel completing the work wherever it lands; destroying value!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge for executives and professionals; recognizing and averting the crisis<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The failure to engage early in a crisis is cited as the root cause of many attempts to avert company failure. This real case study headed for <strong><em>terminal failure by the client<\/em><\/strong><strong>; <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/case%20studies\/Case%20History2%20MD%20lossmaker.pdf\">click to link<\/a>. What would be your plan to reverse this MDs disastrous course of action? This deadlock was reversed in 10 minutes by one of the icebreaker team, following a hopeless series of <strong><em>wrongly focused<\/em><\/strong> attempts to engage to resolve the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you doing to improve your skills to develop your team through this period?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As this opportunity is as much about management development as crisis or turnaround and the deadline is next Wednesday 5<sup>th<\/sup> September, as a key player I would like to invite you to join us at this intense 2 day event to share this expert knowledge to support you in achieving this level of effectiveness. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tma-uk.org\/events\/book.asp?ItemID=1192\">click here to book<\/a> via the TMA website. If you would prefer to book separately to the TMA offer give me a call. If we don\u2019t make the 12 participants we will postpone the event and hoard these skills for ourselves, and leave the painting restoration to others! If there are not enough places we will happily reserve you a place at the next event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tma-uk.org\/uploads\/C%20level%20Executive%20Workshop%20TMA%203%20Aug%202012.pdf\"><strong>Please click here for the full details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melanie<\/p>\n<p>Call for more details 0207 193 5518, <a href=\"mailto:office@icebreakerexecutive.com\">office@icebreakerexecutive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture is Ecce Homo by El\u00edas Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez showing damage caused by an Cecilia Gim\u00e9nez, 81 who decided to restore the masterpiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will avoid more Fresco refurbishments like this during this  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,15,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalisation","category-interim-management","category-management-development","category-news-2","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Staying ahead September 2012 - your final call before Sept 5th to avert another Fresco refurbishment disaster... - www.winningthinking.co.uk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=636\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Staying ahead September 2012 - your final call before Sept 5th to avert another Fresco refurbishment disaster... - www.winningthinking.co.uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What will avoid more Fresco refurbishments like this during this [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=636\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"www.winningthinking.co.uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-08-29T16:55:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ionostest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ionostest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/winningthinking.co.uk\\\/?p=636#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/winningthinking.co.uk\\\/?p=636\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"ionostest\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/winningthinking.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/018fe961d8c94a6bd8f767d89aff5614\"},\"headline\":\"Staying ahead September 2012 &#8211; 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